Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.